Temporary roof.



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Patented July 13, 1909.

J. C. GABLER.

TEMPORARY ROOF.

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TEMPORARY ROOF.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.16, 1908. 928,039, Patented July 13, 1909.

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TEMPORARY ROOF.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1909.

Application led March 16, 1908. Serial N o. 421,287.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. GABLER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Temporary Roofs, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to temporary roofs for buildings, the object being to provide suoli a roof, made up in sections of tarpaulin, canvas or other woven material and means for maintaining the same in position.

It is frequently the case in buildings where a lire has occurred, that the upper floors and roof are destroyed while the lower floors remain intact, though such lower Hooi-s and contents may be exposed to the weather pending insurance adjustment, or for other causes.

My roof, being made up of a series of seetions or squares of canvas or other suitable material, a quantity of such sections can be delivered almost at the moment the firemen leave the premises after a fire, suitable ropes, cables or other means of supporting the canvas and giving a pitch77 to the same can be quickly rigged up, and the sections of canvas be buttoned together and fastened to the ropes in a few hours, including means for carrying off rain water in the event of a storm.

In the drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l is a side elevation of a building in section, showing front and rear wall, with my improved roof in position, part of the canvas being removed to show end connections. Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. l partly in section. Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. l partly in section. Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view of the joints of canvas showing method of fastening together, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of the canvas showing central and end snaps to engage ropes.

Similar reference characters indicate like parts in the several views.

The covering or roof l is composed of a series of pieces of canvas or other suitable material, preferably of a uniform size; two edges, forming a right angle, have a double web, 2 3, while the two remaining edges 4 are single; all the edges are provided with holes equidistant so that when the single edge is inserted between the double edged end shown in Fig. Ll) the holes in the three layers aline with each other for the purpose of passing a button, 5, therethrough. Any suitable button may be used for fastening the sections together.

Uprights, 6, may be erected to extend above the wall of a building 14, said uprights being secured to a board 7 which is turn is bolted or secured to a board 8 within the building'. I find in practice that window openings are well suited for suoli erection. The uprights are surmounted by sheaves,'9, over which a rope or cable, l0, is passed to an upright, 11, on the opposite side or end of the building, the latter upright being set so that the rope will have a fall for the purpose of giving the canvas fastened thereto a pitch for delivering rain water to the lower end. The upright 1l may be secured in the same manner as the uprights first described, the rope being wound around it at the top or otherwise made fast thereto. The rope l0 is passed over and around a windlass 12 to tighten it, or a turnbuckle 13 may be used for the same purpose, this detail not being important so long as the rope or ropes are made taut to prevent sagging. Any number of uprights and ropes may be used, it depending on the size of they building to be covered.

To keep the canvas in place and also to keep out the rain, a rope 15 may be passed around the buil-ding where practical or otherwise stretched so that the lower edge of the covering can be fastened to it. In Fig. 5 I show a snap, 16, of novel construction, fastened to the canvas at suitable points to permit them to snap over the rope 10, while at the lower end, of what I call the curtain sections, 17, a series of snaps, 18, are fastened and adapted to engage the rope 15. At the lower end of the roof, I use one or more sections of canvas provided with a pocket, 19, having a hose coupling 2O to which a hose 21 can be attached.

Such being the construction of my improved roof, the operation is as follows: To protect a building either in course of erection or after a fire, the uprights are placed in position, ropes are drawn and tightened up. The sections of canvas are buttoned together as may be desired, or the sections may be thrown over the ropes, the snaps 16 secured thereto and the edges of the sections be interlocked and buttoned as the workman moves along the line. At the lowest points of the roof sections of canvas having pockets are used, which sections may be of a different size to suit requirements. The curtain sections are then buttoned into place and the snaps 18 fastened to the rope 15,. `A hose, similar to a lire hose is screwed on the coupling on the pocket, the free end of the hose entering a leader,-not shown-or being passed through a window or down through the fioors to any suitable outlet for the discharge of rain water. The .building is then comparatively safe against the weather, and in thel construction orflinishing of the building, any section in the curtain or roof part of the covering cany be unbuttoned temporarily without disturbing any other part,

andcan be refastened whendesired. Thus,

a derrick may be erected and building material such as beams, lumber and so forth may be hoisted vfrom tlielside onto' above the covering and lowered into place at any point by; simply unbuttoning av section or a series of sections of thc covering where required, and at the end of the dayswork or in case of rain &c. the sections can be quickly lfastened back `into place and the building be made safe against the weather. u p A When the permanent roof is being laid, the sections .of covering can be removed and ,when work is completed, ,the entire ktemporary roof and all of its component parts can be taken down to be used again elsewhere. L i

. From the foregoing the objects, construction and advantages of my invention will beapparent and it will be seen that the invention is not restricted to the details illustrat-ed, I intend it also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention which as a matter of language might be said to fall therebetween.

Havin'g'thus described my invention, what I clraim as new is.;-

A temporary roof composed of a flexible body formed of a series o t'separablc sections of textile material, each'havi-ng a pair of single web edgesand apaii; of .edges formed with a double split web., thesplit web edges of one section .adaptedl `to receive the single web edges ofan adjoining section whereby the said sections interengage .with each other at the edgesihereof, meansl extendingl entirely through the split web edges ,and the single web cdgesfor detachably securing the sections together, said means, engaging the outer sidesA of,i the 4split web edges, a teinporary. supporting means for, saidV flexible body, and `means for 1detachably securing` said, fiexiblel; bodyy upon ysaid supporting 11m68.113s'.` I. fw Y,

i Signed at New York, in the county of New Yorlnand; ,State QNQW York, .this seventh day of March, A. D. 1908.

"JOHN c. GABLEP.. `Witnesses: .i l I n i EDGAR M. GREENBAUM, y

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